<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bab988ad-7fcc-422e-855e-438bcf7dbfbf/00B34F9D-D17B-4D97-A1EC-B4EE1AB55B32/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/10/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/10/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/10/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip"><H1>Paris TwiTrip - the verdict</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/10/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Could travelling with Twitter beat tried and tested guidebooks? Benji Lanyado sums up the pros and cons following his experimental TwiTrip to the French capital</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/10/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip"><P>Two weeks ago today, we <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jan/28/twitter-travel-trips">announced our pilot TwiTrip</A>. I was to go to Paris, where I would be at the mercy of <A href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</A> - the micro-blogging site on everybody's lips and fingertips. I would sling questions into the ether, and Twitter users would send me their recommendations. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/10/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip"><P>A week later, I was outside the Gare du Nord, and I was hungry. <A href="http://twitter.com/benjilanyado/status/1176214144">"Looking for somewhere good to eat near the Gare du Nord. Any ideas?"</A> Within 20 minutes I had 17 suggestions. Some 32 hours, 13 requests and 253 suggestions later, I was on the way home. In between, this is what happened. And you can follow my route on the Google map of my trip above.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/00B34F9D-D17B-4D97-A1EC-B4EE1AB55B32/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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